Kenya Country Platform

Report on International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference 2024

26. November 2024 / West & Central Africa, Farmer Innovation Fair, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …

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New Friends of Prolinnova: Suman Manandhar and Violet Kirigua

4. November 2024 / Nepal Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair and NaviNut project featured in Appropriate Technology

25. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …

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Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023

30. June 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023 presents the platform’s achievements, challenges and perspectives as regards its 2023 activities including identifying, documenting and sharing innovations and PID results, capacity strengthening and organisational development, supporting the commercialisation of farmer innovations, networking and policy dialogue as well as resource mobilisation and management of Local Innovation Support Funds/Facilities (LISFs). It …

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Prolinnova participation in GAIA on grassroots technological innovation in agroecology

20. April 2024 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation is supporting the creation of a new network on grassroots technological innovation in agroecology, now called Grassroots Agroecology Innovation Assembly (GAIA). On behalf of the international Prolinnova network, Makonge Righa from World Neighbors, the host NGO of Prolinnova-Kenya, is involved in creating this new network and …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference in Nairobi

26. November 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

On 8–10 April 2024, farmer innovators from 11 African countries coming together in person – and were joined online by farmer innovators from Asia – to share their innovations at the Kilimo Grand Resort in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was funded by the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation and was coordinated by …

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Year 1 report “Expanding promotion of Local Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (ELI-FaNS)

4. February 2025 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform, Kenya Country Platform, South Africa

The Misereor-funded project “Expanding the promotion of local innovation for food security and healthy nutrition to strengthen resilience, with focus on women” (ELI-FaNS, 2023–25) is a follow-on project to SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate in Food and Nutrition Security: 2019–22). Field-level activities are underway in ten action-learning sites facilitated by five Country Platforms, …

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Call for posters for Prolinnova conference on participatory innovation

26. June 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

With funding from the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation, Prolinnova–Kenya will host an International Farmer Innovation Fair and Conference (IFIF&C) on 8–10 April 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Farmer innovators from 11 of Prolinnova’s multistakeholder Country Platforms (CPs) in Africa will showcase their innovations in person. A 2-hour virtual session on 9 April …

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Prolinnova–Kenya at UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai

15. December 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

With the facilitation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Vincent Mariadho – Prolinnova–Kenya Coordinator – participated in the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Expo City 2020, Dubai, on 30 November to 5 December 2023. The event is an annual global summit convened by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) …

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Prolinnova–Kenya at UNDP AFCIA 2023 workshop in Philippines

15. December 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

On 17–19 October 2023, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) took part in an Adaptation Fund Climate Innovations Accelerator (AFCIA) workshop hosted in Manila, Philippines, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Two representatives from each of the 44 grantees in Cohorts 1 and 2 funded by AFCIA attended the workshop. Vincent Mariadho, PK Coordinator, and Lucious Achacha, World …

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